Infographic

1. 163
Brain
Cancer
Leukaemia
121
Heart
Disease
59
Heart
Defect
49
LEUKAEMIA
OF CHILDREN SURVIVE
90%
BREAST CANCER
OF PEOPLE SURVIVE
90%
BRAIN CANCER
OF PEOPLE SURVIVE
20%
*SOURCE (OSTROM, Q, GITTLEMAN, H, FARAH, P, ONDRACEK, A, CHEN, Y, WOLINSKY, Y, STROUP, N.E, KRUCHKO, C &
BARNHOLTZ-SLOAN, J.S, (2013). CBTRUS STATISTICAL REPORT: PRIMARY BRAIN AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
TUMOURS DIAGNOSIS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2006-2010. NEURO-ONCOLOGY, P50-51.
It gets worse. For some forms,
such as glioblastoma or DIPG, 5
year survival is much lower.
5%GLIOBLASTOMA
OF PEOPLE SURVIVE
*SOURCE THE COST OF CANCER NSW – REPORT BY ACCESS ECONOMICS, AUSTRALIA WIDE, APRIL 2007
SOURCE NHMRC
*SOURCE CURE BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH OF 1,010 NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE AUSTRALIAN ADULTS AGED 18+ JULY 2014
*SOURCE AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS (2010 – 2014), 3303.0 CAUSES OF DEATH, AUSTRALIA (2009 – 2013) TABLE
1.3: UNDERLYING CAUSE OF DEATH, SELECTED CAUSES BY AGE AT DEATH, NUMBERS AND RATES, AUSTRALIA, AGES 1 - 14 (2009 – 2013)
Index of lifetime cost per patient
Brain cancer is deadly, survival rates are low
Brain cancer survival rates have barely
increased in the last 30 years
Cancer
20%
Bowel
19%
Brain
2%
Prostate
35%
Breast
18%
Brain cancer costs more
per patient than
any other cancer
Brain cancer kills more people under
40 in Australia than any other cancer.
*SOURCE: AIHW NATIONAL CANCER STATISTICS
* SOURCE: INCREASE IN SURVIVAL RATES 1982 - 2011. AIHW NATIONAL CANCER STATISTICS
*SOURCE AIHW NATIONAL CANCER STATISTICS
Yet it receives less than 5% of NHMRC /
government cancer research funding
Number of deaths between 2009-2013
Thyroid
Cancer
34
Yet 90% of Australians are unaware of this fact
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